Second Bite Podcast
By Todd Taskey
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Episodes: 143
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This is the Second Bite Podcast where we talk with top entrepreneurs and CEOs about creating valuable companies through creative transactions.
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PE Insight Series: Green Flags in Due Diligence: Behavioral Signs of Founder Commitment
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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PE Insight Series: Non-Negotiable Attributes of a Scalable Platform Investment
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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PE Insight Series: What PE Firms Actually Change To Drive Multiple Expansion at Exit
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May 28, 2026 |
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$10M Revenue Tripled in 3 Years
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May 21, 2026 |
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They Bought Their Agency Client… Then Scaled It Into an Industry Standard
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Take the Cash (NO Second Bite) and Start Fresh
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Agency Collective to "Saturday Morning Call Agency" - The Agital Story
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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10 Acquisitions in 4 Years: A Blueprint for Creating a PE-Backed Powerhouse
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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How BarkleyOKRP Scaled to 700 People and Maintained Its Soul
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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From VC Bust to PE Success - The New Engen Story Part 2
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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From VC Bust to PE Success - The New Engen Story
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Behind the Scenes of M&A - BluShark Digital & Herringbone Digital
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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A Knock at the Door Leads To "Perfect Transaction" - What's Still True 5 Years Later
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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How AI Agents Are Helping Agency Founders Create 70% Margins
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Closed Transaction: The CTO's Perspective
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Trust, Equity, and AI: The Surprising Deal Behind Levergy's Sale To KickCharge
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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How To Navigate Key Staff in Your Agency Exit
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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From Startup to Strategic Powerhouse: Jeff Spanbauer's Journey Through the PE Growth Machine
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Behind the Scenes: How a "Search Funder" Acquired a Digital Agency
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Bootstrapped to Boardroom: How Jason Hennessey & Trinity Hunt Will Impact Legal Marketing
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Trinity Hunt and the Future of Local Digital Marketing
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Understanding "Buy Side Banking"
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May 22, 2025 |
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When a Transaction Accelerates Growth - Avoiding Agency Building
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May 15, 2025 |
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Insider's View of a 60-Day Asset Sale
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May 08, 2025 |
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"How Did You Arrive at That Number...?"
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Creating Winning Business Deals: A Compilation of Strategies
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Value Created From a Process (Even Without a Transaction)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Founder Lessons From a CEO Whisperer
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Lessons Learned - Selling to a HoldCo
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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[Agency Growth Advisors Series] Rapid-Fire Segment: Invaluable Resources From Agency Owners
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Selling Your Marketing Agency - Lessons From a Remarkable Story Part 2
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Selling Your Marketing Agency - The Remarkable Story Behind the Book Part 1
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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[Agency Growth Advisors Series] Don't Get Stuck With "Yes" People: Where Agency Owners Source Their Feedback
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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[Agency Growth Advisors Series] Lessons From the Big Dogs: What Smaller Agencies Haven't Quite Figured Out
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Be the Roller, Join the Roller, or Get Rolled - Winning With Private Equity Part 2
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Be the Roller, Join the Roller, or Get Rolled - Winning With Private Equity
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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What Happens When the Founder Sells to Employees?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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[Agency Growth Advisors Series] Agency Growth Questions: A Checklist for Founders
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Reflections (10 Years Later) Selling to a Public Holding Company
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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[Agency Growth Advisors Series] An Introduction to Agency Growth: Helping Agency Owners Identify Their Biggest Challenges
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Lessons, Learnings & Freedom From Transaction #1
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Will the Third Time Be the Charm???
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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PE Insight Series: What Drives TRUE Value in a Transaction?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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PE Insight Series: Eliminating Friction in Deal Negotiations
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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PE Insight Series: The Inner Workings of an Investment Committee
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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PE Insight Series: What Kills a Deal? PE Executives Weigh In
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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PE Insight Series: First Impressions: PE Executives' Investment Criteria
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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What Makes an Acquisition Strategy Really Work?
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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From 600 Global Clients To Losing $1.1M To a Profitable Recurring Revenue Business
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The Delicate Art of Transitioning From Founder to CEO
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Delicate Art of Buying Out a Partner
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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How a 33% "Roll Forward" Results in 47.8% Equity Ownership
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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How Do I Know the Timing Is Right? (Founder Question Series)
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May 30, 2024 |
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When and How Do I Disclose to My Company, Customers, and the Public? (Founder Question Series)
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May 23, 2024 |
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When Do I Bring My Management Team Into the Loop? (Founder Question Series)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Do I Have a Boss Now? (Founder Question Series)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Growing from $10M to $160M to $0 Successfully
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May 02, 2024 |
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Accelerate Don't Exit - A New Model for Founders
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Speed M&A™ - The Evolution of Legal Support for Transactions
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Life Lessons For Entrepreneurs from an Early Yahoo & Facebook Exec Turned Professional Comedian
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Why a Public Company CEO Left the "Job of a Lifetime" To Work Out of His Sweaty Garage PT 2
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Why a Public Company CEO Left the "Job of a Lifetime" To Work Out of His Sweaty Garage PT 1
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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How Agency Founders Are Accelerating Growth and Realizing "Full Value"
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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What Do Great M&A Strategists Really Seek From an Acquisition?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Master Class in Selecting a Private Equity Partner
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Path Less Traveled to CEO
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Becoming Executive Chairman
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Can You Really Be a "Platform Investment" at $1.25m EBITDA?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Lessons and Insights From a 3X Founder
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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When Everything Works Perfectly (Really)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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How Being Strategically Acquired Accelerated This Entrepreneur's Dream & Expanded His Vision
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Hidden Tax and Benefit Opportunities Founders Always Overlook
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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5X Return on Fee & Strategic Coup
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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What Is Mountain Top Syndrome?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Better Systems = Better Margins = Bigger Exit
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Life After a Successful Exit - Opportunities, Excitement & New Challenges
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The 5-Year Earnout That Exceeded Projections, Payouts and All Expectations
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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3 Alternatives to Rapid Growth & Value Creation
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How "Learning Habits" Leads to PE Investment, Global Clients, and Dominance in a Micro Niche
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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First Generation Entrepreneur Executing on a $400M Vision
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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A Key Acquisition Accelerates Growth in an Abstrakt Way
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Big Fish in a Small Pond With 700 Happy, Raving Customers
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May 25, 2023 |
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Can You Really Triple Your Business in Two Years?
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May 18, 2023 |
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How a Richard Branson Comment Motivated a Connected TV Pioneer
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May 04, 2023 |
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Master Class: How a $100M+ CEO Raised Venture Capital for a New Sports Data Company
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Cash, Equity, a Sales Team, New Capabilities and Administrative Freedom... All After Deal #1 Failed
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Terror, Excitement & Reward - A Bootstrapped Acquisition
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Acqui-Hiring To Fuel Agency Double Digit Growth: A Behind the Scenes Look
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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A 14 Month Road to Clarity, Partnership, and a Successful Deal Close
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Understanding the Advantages of an "Independent Sponsor"
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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[Year in Review] Potomac Business Capital's Partnerships and Transactions
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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How a Veterinary Roll-Up, an AT&T "Black Box," and a British Family Office Shaped a Leading Global Marketing Transformation Agency
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Transactions That Created a Global Marketing Powerhouse Part 2
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Transactions That Created a Global Marketing Powerhouse Part 1
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Understanding the Impact of Science Behind Performance Marketing
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Combining Internal Operating Partners at "Inflection Points" Creates Long Term Value
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Seven Year Serial Entrepreneur
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Data & Data = Client ROI (And Super Profitable Agency)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Understanding How Debt Enhances PE Investment Returns
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Understanding the Hierarchy of Private Equity & the Process Behind Repeated Investment Success
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Creating Customer & Agency Value - A HubSpot Perspective
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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How To Become an Overnight Success in 20 Years
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Lower Middle Market M&A in the Second Half of 2022
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Lessons Learned From Underperforming Acquisitions
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Exchanging a Retiring Partner for Private Equity To Fuel Growth Plans
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May 26, 2022 |
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How Power Digital Grew From $5M EBITDA to $30M in 3 Years: The Incredible Success Story of Entrepreneur & Private Equity Partnership, Part 2
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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How Power Digital Grew From $5M EBITDA to $30M in 3 Years: The Incredible Success Story of Entrepreneur & Private Equity Partnership
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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First Time Exit and Proper Positioning for Big Second Bite
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Key Requirements for a Successful Tuck-In Acquisition
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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How the Seller Gets 90% Cash at Close and the Employees Get the Company 10 Years Later
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The #1 Value Creation Idea From the Inc. 500 CEO Project
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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How 7-Figure License Deals Paved the Way for a Dramatic Exit
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Successfully Selling Without "Ever Going to Market"
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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How to Recognize the "Time to Maximize Success"
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Year in Review
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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How Entrepreneurs Recognize Opportunity When it Appears in Unusual Forms
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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All The Stuff You Wish You Knew: Common Stock, Preferred Returns, Projections, Working Capital, Non-Compete, and More
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Entrepreneurs
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Creating a $50M Business with a Unique Second Bite
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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From Pokemon to $250M in Office Chairs: Lessons From the Incredible Entrepreneurial Journey of a High School Student
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Crash and Burn Lessons Create eCommerce Champion
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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How to Structure an Earn Out and Avoid Big & Expensive Mistakes
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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"Open Book Management:" The Key to Winning the Game of Business
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Understand and Profit from The Entrepreneur's Paradox
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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From Entry Level Strategist to Company CEO to 2X Private Equity Success Story
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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College Entrepreneur to Inc 500: Insights From A Seller Turned Buyer
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Insider View of Private Equity for Family and Founder Businesses
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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How Managing Industry Complexity Creates Niche Expertise and Valuable Agency [Going it Alone Series]
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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How This Founder Survived Near Death Before Mastering "The Game of Business" to Create (and Share) Outsized EBITDA [Going it Alone Series]
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Sold Twice, Bought Several: The Remarkable Story Behind a $100M Digital Business
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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How an Unexpected "Knock at the Door" Resulted in a Fortune for Two First-Time Entrepreneurs
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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From Bootstrapped Agency to a Trusted Growth Accelerator for Global Brands [Going it Alone Series]
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Winning the War for Key Executive Talent: Insider Info from a Top Executive Recruiter [CEO Support Series]
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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The Risks and Rewards of "Selling Too Soon"
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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How Rivet Logic Sold in the Middle of COVID and Birthed a Software Business - An Entrepreneur's Dream
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Advanced Ideas That Will Increase EBITDA This Year [CEO Support Series]
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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How Two Sentences Could be the Difference in Making Another Seven Figures — or More
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Hyper-Growth Without PE Investment [Going it Alone Series]
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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How to Successfully Prepare for a Big Transaction
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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How Focus + Focus = Outsized Valuation
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Improving Your EBITDA with Don Keninitz of E. Cohen [CEO Support Series]
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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How to Ensure a Successful Transaction for Your Company with Michael Quint of Bluetext
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Developing a Business Exit Strategy with Todd Taskey of Potomac Business Capital
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Jun 08, 2021 |